On Monday 02/13/12, Moody’s downgraded the debt ratings of Italy, Spain and Portugal and placed negative outlooks on France, Britain and Austria. Slovenia, Slovakia and Malta are three nations that many Americans have probably never heard of and are hardly economic powers, but they too were victim’s of the Moody machete.

The Pound is Sinking from Macca's "Tug of War"

If you listen through the steady drip-drip-drip of the European meltdown, you might hear Paul McCartney’s musical lament “The Pound is Sinking” being sung as the retro musical theme to the end of Europe’s economy as we know it, and with the death of the Euro will come the demise of the Dollar.

There will be meltdown in the streets of Europe and America. Those who are not spiritually and mentally ready -let alone physically prepared like the new cultural phenomena known as “preppers” – will meltdown and taste the burn of self-destruction wrought through disbelief and skepticism. One morning soon we will awaken to know that the world changed; and that final blow to the crumbling co-dependent economies of the U.S. and Europe could likely be dealt by Middle Eastern war.

If you prepare for the worst, you could be branded a terrorist, as storing up food and supplies for long-term rainy days is considered “extremism” and “suspicious activity” by Big Brother.

The extremists are not those who prepare, but instead those who would melt down and pillage and plunder the prepared. It is those who would seek to rob the prepared that are the doers of suspicious activity. Big Brother is possessive, manipulating and controlling. He loves to keep in bondage those who depend on him; while those who do not need him are considered a threat to security.

Those who take the initiative to prepare a stock of food and supplies would more likely fall into the “law abiding” category than those who would steal from the prepper or rely on care from what is left of Big Brother after the collapse. Those who prepare have guns loaded for self-defense, while the desperadoes who will melt down when the economic bottom falls out will use weapons on offense.

Finally, and as I have written before, to be fully prepared for the oncoming storm one must be a battened-down storehouse filled with the Holy Spirit. Of course, Big Brother considers evangelical Christians who put their faith before their country more of a threat than Islam…

This writer has blogged at length in regards to SOPA, less so about the similar legislation known as PIPA, and now for the first time, the newest attempt to reign-in counterfeiting known as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA.

ACTA - a cyber lockdown

The list of signatories of this legislation reads like a one world kumbaya: the U.S., the European Union and twenty-two of its member states, Canada, Australia, Morocco, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, and Singapore. “Purilateral” will become a commonly-used New World Order buzzword, and ACTA is a plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement.

President Obama and eight negotiating partners signed the agreement on October 1, 2011. The White House in sinister fashion circumvented the necessity to have ACTA confirmed by lawmakers; doing so by presenting it an as “executive agreement,” although legal scholars have taken note of the glaringly dubious nature of this characterization.

“Dubious” indeed!

ACTA is SOPA and PIPA on steroids; granting copyright holders direct powers to demand that ISPs remove alleged copyright-infringing material from the internet merely on a whim. Under pre-ACTA conditions, internet service providers were only forced to remove content after a court order. Now, all legal oversight will be abolished, creating a precedent applicable worldwide. With legal oversight being eliminated, the potential for abuse will likely be greater than that which would have been suffered through PIPA or SOPA.

The internet has made the acquisition of most music free via MP3, crippling the music industry and damaging profitability for songwriters and recording artists. Music listeners merely need to paste the URL of a music video into any one of a number of “convert youtube videos to MP3″ style websites and the soundtrack can be downloaded for free, which is stealing and not “sharing” – the feel-good phrase that is used to rationalize online piracy. This piracy is one of a number of crimes that ACTA, PIPA, and SOPA were created to eliminate, and that appears good on the surface…

…But ACTA would bring an end to the internet as we know it. It would put de facto control of the World Wide Web into the hands of two powerful Washington D.C. lobbying groups: the music and the movie industries. Governments around the world would cede to the wishes of these billion dollar golden calves, and it is likely that not only would piracy be eliminated but likewise a great deal of online shopping and research. And with global enforcement, the far-fetched notion that Big Brother can’t hear what goes on in your home – let along over your phone – would no longer be fiction but faction.

Sovereign nations must be brought down to bring about the coming One World System. It seems now that a free-flowing internet may have to be chained and restrained as well.

I’ve stated before that I am not a prognosticator, and I will maintain that claim. But, this writer will make the seemingly safe prediction that the year 2012 will be more tumultuous than 2011 on all fronts…

Obama good, no Romney good!...no Paul!

There is so much information available through the internet and mass-media that the ability to discern the truth from deception will be exceedingly difficult in 2012; even for watchers at the wall like me. I have with steadfastness believed that the television news media is controlled and events that could directly impact the quality of our lives – especially those events taking place in the Middle East – do not get sufficient reportage. The 2012 Presidential Campaign has been in full-swing for months and all other news seemingly gets the short shrift.

The SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) may curtail greatly the information that we receive online; if the government uses it to shutdown sites that may be “unfriendly” to the Marxist administration currently at the helm of Good Ship America. As a writer and a recording artist, I stand against internet piracy as it would make my products illegally free and deny me the opportunity to be paid for my creative work. But at the same time, I don’t trust the amount of freedom that SOPA would give to Big Brother and the fact that Hollywood is so supportive of it sends up a miniature red flag of paranoia in my mind. Much of the Internet Industry, including social media giants Facebook and Twitter as well AOL, LinkedIn, Ebay, and Mozilla are set against SOPA. Indeed, it is something to be carefully watched in 2012.

So while we are being distracted by Obama vs. Romney, Romney vs. Gingrich, Paul vs. Santorum, Obama will beat any Republican, any Republican will beat Obama ad infintum and ad nauseum, events will be transpiring in the Middle East that will threaten our way of life and likewise through the government that will diminish our freedom. But, the casual news observer will be made suitably uninformed by being lulled into a stupor by nearly non-stop Election 2012 coverage or by SOPA pseudo-censorship…

…That is unless an event so colossal takes place in the world that all self-respecting albeit controlled media outlets will be forced to push aside the perpetual coverage of the buildup to the election; if the election itself isn’t postponed!

The “control” is at the very least within the bias; with FOX being for the most part conservatively so while CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR and others bowing to the liberal agenda followed by their viewers, listeners, and button-pushers alike. At the very worst, the control is brought upon the news media by the wealthy elites that drive corporate America and operate the world banking system. It is these elites that believe they will hold complete power in a full-out economic and social collapse; implementing a one world system that is financial, governmental, judicial, militaristic, religious, and commercial.

The government is not here to help and “The Man” is a select group of men and women. In 2012, we may see much more evidence of these things as those who operate behind the scenes will be more bold about stepping out into view. But pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!